I also raised sugar pumpkins from seed, coaxing a dozen good ones from some top soil in the Los Angeles heat. There’s plenty more harvesting to be done, but if the early Halloween candy at my supermarket is any indication, fall is looming just up ahead. That’s why my first experiment with all this bounty is smoked pumpkin chili.
Recipe: Spicy Teriyaki Candied Bacon Burger
I’ve been jonesing a good teriyaki burger for a few weeks and looking for a chance to tweak the teriyaki pineapple marinade in Flavorize. This was a win-win. The easy route would have been to just mix up the sauce, marinate the ground chuck, and slap it all together. It would also be, well, normal.
Iced Heat: Freezing Chiles
Freezing chiles is an excellent way of preserving them. Chiles that have been frozen retain all the characteristics of fresh chiles except for their texture. Since the individual cell walls have been ruptured by the freezing of the water within each cell, the chiles will lose their crisp texture.
Vindaloo Voodoo: Recipe
Earlier this week, we ran Mike Stines’s feature Lamb: It’s Not Just for Easter Anymore over at the Super Site. The Vindaloo recipe packs a .50 caliber heat wave so we’re excerpting it here. Enjoy!
Stir-Fried Pork, Asparagus, Lemon Grass, Onions and Chile-Garlic Sauce
Almost as close as you can get to authentic Chinese food in North America! This recipe combines marinated pork shoulder, ginger, garlic, hot chiles, fermented bean sauce, asparagus and lemon grass for a somewhat spicy but extremely flavorful entrée.
Summer Firepit Grilling
Can you cook on a fire pit? Sure you can. It doesn’t make any difference if it’s propane-fired or a traditional wood burning pit… cooking is cooking. And you can do a lot more than S’mores, hot dogs and hamburgers.
Call of Cthulhu: Giant Isopod Soup
Twisted individual that he is, Dave DeWitt emailed me a link to this story about a 2.5-foot giant isopod that was reeled in while trying to violate an underwater robot. I’m sure he was trying to shock me but the joke’s on him. I’ve played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. My 20th level paladin slays demons like this for breakfast.
Speaking of, it turns out these Cthulhu-looking sea creatures are related to lobsters and shrimp to the point where you can eat them.
